Hoyer: President-Elect's Ridicule of Intelligence Agencies Undermines Our Security
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WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) joined Carol Costello on CNN this morning to discuss President-Elect Trump’s response to Russian interference in the election. Below is an excerpt from the interview and a link to the video.
“I think there's a real danger that is occurring where Donald Trump is either not getting briefings because he thinks they're irrelevant and he knows more than the intelligence agencies, or he has the intelligence agency briefings and denies their findings… and undermines the confidence they have in themselves and undermines the confidence Americans have in our intelligence agencies. If that happens, that will be dangerous for our country. There will be a disconnect between the Commander-in-Chief and our intelligence agencies. That doesn't mean the intelligence agencies are always right. But to publicly ridicule them, to publicly undermine them, to publicly display a lack of confidence in our intelligence agencies is a very, very bad action of the President-Elect, in my opinion, and it undermines our security.”